Tag: poetry

i have tears on my face but that’s okay cause salt tastes good. that’s okay cause im made out of water anyways. they can say whatever they want to and try to break me down but the closest they’ll get is making me cry. but that don’t mean nothing cause i cry in every second commercial.

In Sylvia McAdam's "Nationhood Interrupted" (Which is amazing I highly recommend it) She discussed the roles of women pre contact. The roles our Nêhiyaw iskwew had were powerful, meaningful roles that upheld our communities. Our iskwew were never complacent, never the object of a mans will - and never subject to demeaning treatment or people who would not allow them to be exactly what they were - iskwew - promising the existence of the future generations.